Community access at T.A.E.I.L.
Informational Architecture Guide — Not a Live Registration or Login System
T.A.E.I.L. is developing a thoughtful, two-domain structure to connect people around grief, remembrance, reflection, preparation, celebration, and mutual care. This page explains how public exploration, future verified community participation, and private sensitive services are designed to work together safely.
Identity verification can help support accountability, but it does not make a person's legal name public, guarantee another person's safety or honesty, or replace privacy controls, moderation, safeguarding, and personal judgment.
Public material and future community participation
Our public domain, taeilcommunity.org, hosts both open public material and a future authenticated community layer for verified participants:
- Public visitor content remains open to everyone without requiring an account: learning resources, organizational governance, safeguarding standards, crisis signposting, and public updates.
- Future authenticated community functions will require an eligible verified account before someone can post, message, or participate in community exchanges.
Visitors, Users, and Members
T.A.E.I.L.'s access architecture distinguishes four distinct roles to protect community trust and personal boundaries:
Visitor
Anyone accessing the public web. No login is required. Visitors may read public information, editorial content, and material explicitly designated public by its author, including public Shared Reflections, in a read-only view.
User
An adult who creates an account, completes required tiered real-name verification, agrees to community standards, and remains in good standing. Users may read community content, like reflections and follow authors in Shared Reflections, and use The Cleanse, request-and-accept messaging, and Garage Sale. Users cannot comment on or share their own reflections.
Member
A verified User with an active membership entitlement once legally live. Members access all community tools, can also comment on and share their own reflections in Shared Reflections, use the sensitive legacy and remembrance services on taeil.life, and are the only role eligible for The Members’ Voice.
Caretaker / Contact
A verified User or Member specifically designated by a Member with defined, recorded, revocable, and auditable permissions for after-death or emergency delegation.
Privacy-led discoverability
Every participant controls their own discovery profile separately from their content permissions. T.A.E.I.L. provides four privacy-led discoverability settings:
- Invisible / Not Searchable (Default) — Not discoverable in general member lookups or people search.
- Private Circle — Visible only to members of your agreed mutual-care circles or approved contacts.
- Authenticated Community — Discoverable only by logged-in, verified Users and Members.
- Public — Discoverable by public visitors, displaying only fields you have deliberately made public.
Crucial rule: Seeing someone in a directory search, having a conversation with them, seeing their public reflection, or possessing a link never grants access to their Sanctuary, Memorial, or sensitive records. Access always requires explicit, revocable server-side permissions.
Future Shared Reflections, The Cleanse, messaging, and Circle of Care
Community participation is guided by dignity and safety:
- Shared Reflections: A planned reflective community space where verified adult Members share lived experiences, life lessons, meaningful thoughts, humane questions, remembrance, and gratitude. Visitors may read reflections approved for public visibility, verified adult Users may like reflections and follow authors, and Members may also comment (subject to each author's response setting). Contributors choose whether a reflection is visible to the authenticated community or submitted for public visibility, and select their preferred response setting. For full details, see our Shared Reflections overview.
- The Cleanse: A planned strictly private, non-social release ritual for verified adult Users and Members who are ready to let go of words, thoughts, anger, grief, or regret. It carries no public posting, sharing, or feed of any kind. For full details, see our The Cleanse overview.
- Chosen display names are used by default. Real-name verification is maintained securely in the system for safety and accountability; it is not broadcast publicly.
- Request-and-accept direct messaging: Non-members and strangers cannot immediately open direct chats. A conversation begins only when the recipient explicitly accepts a message request.
- Circle of Care: Intended for small, mutual-care circles to stay in touch gently. Circle of Care is care and connection—it is never surveillance, emergency monitoring, or a guarantee of personal safety.
Future Garage Sale
T.A.E.I.L. plans an online community used-item listing service where verified Users and Members can offer pre-loved items to one another. Garage Sale will operate under strict safety baselines:
- It is restricted to verified community participants and will not be publicly browseable at launch.
- Exact residential addresses, phone numbers, and legal names are never published on listings. Only broad collection areas (such as a municipality or general neighborhood) are shown.
- T.A.E.I.L. will not initially hold funds, provide escrow, arrange delivery, or guarantee item condition or transactions.
For complete details on safety guidance and prohibited listings, visit our dedicated Garage Sale feature overview.
What is not available yet
To avoid misunderstanding, please note that T.A.E.I.L. is in a pre-launch build phase. None of the following systems are currently operational:
- Account creation, login, or real-name document verification
- Live community forums, Shared Reflections posting, liking, following, commenting, The Cleanse, or direct messaging
- Directory search or discoverability configuration
- Garage Sale item listings, transactions, or seller messaging
- Purchasable memberships or payments of any kind
If you encounter a link to a restricted area on our development prototypes, our Access Required explanation page will guide you back to public resources.
Need urgent help?
T.A.E.I.L. is not an emergency service or crisis response helpline.
If you are experiencing severe distress, grief crisis, or thoughts of self-harm, please connect with professional or local emergency resources immediately. Confidential, international crisis resources can be located at findahelpline.com or on our Crisis Signposting Page.